The WestWords Podcast
Enjoy these bite-sized conversations with some of WestWords' creatives, from the heart of Greater Western Sydney. These episodes cover many of the skills required by writers at all stages of development.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 87
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Creating space for your own writing while juggling life - Elizabeth Walton interviews Michelle Hamadache
Welcome to a special series of episodes, where WestWords Academy alumni interview their favourite creatives.
In this episode, Academy alumni Elizabeth speaks to Michelle Hamadache in depth about her …
Queer South Asian Representation and the role of the Creative Practitioner - Sheryl Fernandes Dixit interviews Sonam Mahatme
Welcome to a special series of episodes, where WestWords Academy alumni interview their favourite creatives.
In this episode, Academy alumni Sheryl speaks to Sonam Mahatme about her identity as Queer…
Writing a novel as your PHD - Zohra Aly interviews Hayley Scrivenor
Welcome to a special series of episodes, where WestWords Academy alumni interview their favourite creatives.
In this episode, Academy alumni Zohra speaks to Hayley Scrivenor about Hayley's experience…
How long does it truly take to learn to write a novel? - Elizabeth Walton interviews Trish Bolton
Welcome to a special series of episodes, where WestWords Academy alumni interview their favourite creatives.
In this episode, Academy alumni Elizabeth speaks to Trish Bolton about the release of her …
Songwriting and the distortion of meaning - Paul Traynor and Marc Stanislas interview Bryan Estepa
Welcome to a special series of episodes, where WestWords Academy alumni interview their favourite creatives.
In this episode, Paul and Marc speak to musician and songwriter Bryan Estepa about the emo…
Arts advocacy, and the Special Envoy to the Arts - Libby Hyett interviews Susan Templeman MP, and Michael Campbell
Welcome to a special series of episodes, where WestWords Academy members, and Alumni, interview their favourite creatives.
Susan Templeman MP is an Australian politician. She is the member for Macqua…
Identity, Standing-out, and Writers as Performers - Joanne Macias interviews Maria Tran
Welcome to a special series of episodes, where WestWords Academy members, and Alumni, interview their favourite creatives.
Maria Tran is a Vietnamese-Australian actor, filmmaker, and martial artist w…
AUTHORSHIP, ACTIVISM AND ACADEMIA with Victoria Brookman
Victoria Brookman is an activist, author and academic from the Blue Mountains. In this interview with James Roy she describes how her own perceived inability to push through writer's block, along wit…
"SIGNS OF LIFE" – FOURPLAY STRING QUARTET AND NEIL GAIMAN COLLABORATION (Pt 2) with Peter Hollo
Peter Hollo is a professional cellist and founding member of FourPlay String Quartet, a musical ensemble who recently collaborated to record a second spoken word/music album with writer and creative …
"SIGNS OF LIFE" – FOURPLAY STRING QUARTET AND NEIL GAIMAN COLLABORATION (Pt 1) with Peter Hollo
Peter Hollo is a professional cellist and founding member of FourPlay String Quartet, a musical ensemble who recently collaborated to record a second spoken word/music album with writer and creative …
CHOOSE/SELECT/DETERMINE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE/EXPERIENCE/PLOT with George Ivanoff
George Ivanoff is a Melbourne writer who has written over 130 books for young people, including a series of tense and thrilling interactive adventure books. Listen to this podcast to find out how he …
POSTCARDS FROM THE URBAN DESERT with Pete Shmigel
Pete Shmigel is a freelance writer and journalist who has just returned from his second visit to Ukraine in 2023, where he began to write the stories of the people on the frontline of the Russian inv…
KEEPING ON KEEPING ON with Catherine Jinks
Catherine Jinks is a multi-award winning author of books for all ages, with over fifty books published in a 35 year career. In this conversation with James Roy, Catherine talks about trends in publis…
OWN STORIES with Fiona Murphy
Fiona Murphy is a journalist, memoirist and non-fiction writer. As a Deaf writer, she is very interested in the rise of Own Voices as an important consideration for any artist working in a diverse sp…
LIFE IN THE PETRIE DISH with Augusta Supple
Augusta Supple is a playwright, theatre critic, one-time arts administrator, short story writer, screenwriter and amateur flautist. In this conversation with James Roy, Augusta talks about creative e…
THEATRE: THE EXTREME SPORT OF PERFORMANCE with Mary Rachel Brown and Jamie Oxenbould
The latest guests of the Mini-Masterclass podcast are Mary Rachel Brown and Jamie Oxenbould. Mary and Jamie operate in different spaces within the theatre scene: Mary writes for theatre, and Jamie is…
THE ARTIST'S LIFE(STYLE CHOICE) with Michele Freeman
Today we welcome Michele Freeman, a former WestWords Fellow and emerging writer from Western Sydney. Michele was recently at Daffodil Cottage for a week-long residency, and she and James had a wide-r…
REMEMBERING MARGARET HAMILTON – the 2020 Pinerolo interview
Margaret Hamilton AM (1941-2022) was a publisher, advocate, writer, educator, curator and passionate supporter of children's literature, particularly picture books. She passed away late in 2022, so w…
WRITING FOR THEATRE (MUSICAL AND OTHERWISE) with Hilary Bell
Welcome back to the WestWords Mini-Masterclass podcast, a fortnightly series of conversations with creatives. To kick off 2023 we welcome Hilary Bell, who is a highly respected and multi-awarded play…
NOVEL RESEARCH ON LOCATION with James Roy
Ally Burnham (WestWords creative producer) chats with writer and usual host of this podcast, James Roy, about his research methods for his current project, and how working on location creates surpris…